WASHINGTON: More than 1 million homes and businesses in a strip of Indiana to Virginia remained without power on Wednesday, five days after deadly storms hit the region.
The blackout did not mean July 4 Independence Day thousands of utility workers who rushed to restore the extended power outages.
Much of the damage to the power supply was attributed to just last week "right", a great storm, strong winds and long lasting blowing from the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean.
Violent storms weekend and the days of record heat killed at least 23 people in the United States since Friday. Some died when trees fell on houses and cars, and heat stroke killed others.
Energy provider Dominion Virginia Power said emergency crews were working around the clock to deal with interruptions to 60,000 customers throughout Virginia at noon Wednesday.
Service virtually all customers in northern Virginia and the Richmond metropolitan area lost electricity because of storms should be restored by late Friday, said Daisy Pridgen, a Dominion spokesman. In some cases, work can continue until Saturday, where there was extreme damage, he said.
More than 5,000 people from 18 states and Canada are working through the party, Rodney Blevins, a domain vice president, said in a statement. The company said it had restored power to about 90 percent of its 1 million customers who lost electrical service because of the weekend storms, the largest non-interruption of hurricanes in the history of the company.
Much of the worst affected areas were to bake for another day in the scorching heat, with temperatures the National Weather Service forecast of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) to over 100 F (37.7 C) in the region central Atlantic coast.
In Washington, about 5,000 Pepco customers in the local power company were without power Wednesday morning, and the city was distributing food to people who could not cook at home. More about 50,000 Pepco customers in the Maryland suburbs were still in the dark.
But the region still more affected, however, West Virginia and nearby Blue Ridge Mountain section of Virginia, representing almost half of the extended outage.
In West Virginia, Appalachian Power 174,960 of the half a million customers remain without power, the company said in a noon update Wednesday.
Just over the state line in the mountains of West Virginia, Appalachian 110.578 customers remained in the dark, he said.
"The teams continue to find additional damage to our distribution and transmission facitilities" said a statement on the website of the company. He said the additional equipment outside the area will join the restoration efforts as they become available.
Over 3,000 workers are engaged in their efforts in Virginia and West Virginia, the company said. Other utilities also pledged to keep crews working in shifts, some 16 hours - until power was restored.
Arlington County Virginia, across the Potomac River in Washington, still had 6,875 people without power from 7 am, said John Crawford, chief deputy county office of emergency management.
Verizon Services in the county 911 emergency communications center "still not 100 percent stable," but have been running for 48 hours without any known incident, told Reuters.
The blackout did not mean July 4 Independence Day thousands of utility workers who rushed to restore the extended power outages.
Much of the damage to the power supply was attributed to just last week "right", a great storm, strong winds and long lasting blowing from the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean.
Violent storms weekend and the days of record heat killed at least 23 people in the United States since Friday. Some died when trees fell on houses and cars, and heat stroke killed others.
Energy provider Dominion Virginia Power said emergency crews were working around the clock to deal with interruptions to 60,000 customers throughout Virginia at noon Wednesday.
Service virtually all customers in northern Virginia and the Richmond metropolitan area lost electricity because of storms should be restored by late Friday, said Daisy Pridgen, a Dominion spokesman. In some cases, work can continue until Saturday, where there was extreme damage, he said.
More than 5,000 people from 18 states and Canada are working through the party, Rodney Blevins, a domain vice president, said in a statement. The company said it had restored power to about 90 percent of its 1 million customers who lost electrical service because of the weekend storms, the largest non-interruption of hurricanes in the history of the company.
Much of the worst affected areas were to bake for another day in the scorching heat, with temperatures the National Weather Service forecast of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) to over 100 F (37.7 C) in the region central Atlantic coast.
In Washington, about 5,000 Pepco customers in the local power company were without power Wednesday morning, and the city was distributing food to people who could not cook at home. More about 50,000 Pepco customers in the Maryland suburbs were still in the dark.
But the region still more affected, however, West Virginia and nearby Blue Ridge Mountain section of Virginia, representing almost half of the extended outage.
In West Virginia, Appalachian Power 174,960 of the half a million customers remain without power, the company said in a noon update Wednesday.
Just over the state line in the mountains of West Virginia, Appalachian 110.578 customers remained in the dark, he said.
"The teams continue to find additional damage to our distribution and transmission facitilities" said a statement on the website of the company. He said the additional equipment outside the area will join the restoration efforts as they become available.
Over 3,000 workers are engaged in their efforts in Virginia and West Virginia, the company said. Other utilities also pledged to keep crews working in shifts, some 16 hours - until power was restored.
Arlington County Virginia, across the Potomac River in Washington, still had 6,875 people without power from 7 am, said John Crawford, chief deputy county office of emergency management.
Verizon Services in the county 911 emergency communications center "still not 100 percent stable," but have been running for 48 hours without any known incident, told Reuters.
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